The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-07
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A hospital for animals will soon be
erected in London, and at the same time
free dispensaries will be opened, where
the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs and birds
of the poor can be treated when i'll.
The Swedes of Chicago are going to
erect, in Lincoln park, a $50, 600 monu-
ment to Linn2us, the famous botanist.
The monument will be the finest in Chi
cago and is to be a fac simile of the Lin
n9us statue at Stockholm.
The Mercantile library of New York
city was founded and is entirely managed
by clerks. Any one, by paying the fec,
may become member; but to hold office,
or even to vote, one must be a clerk or
! working on salary in some mercantile
| business.
| A New York firm will manufacture
watches which cannot be spoiled, as com
mon watches are, by being magnetized
when brought near electric wires or dyna-
mos. They will have palladium hair
| spring and non-Elagnetic compensation
| balance.
| A Tennessee mountaineer recently
found under a ledge of rocks, the sword
of Confederate officer. 1t proves to have
belonged to captain who was killed in a
| skirmish, and one of his command hid it
that it might not fall into the hands of the
Union forces.
The burning of the Paterson iron works
is attributed to the English sparrow. The
sparrows have been noticed carrying straw
| and other infiammable stuff and building
their nests among the girders, and it is
believed that the sparks lodging in these
| nests caused the fire.
| A scheme is ON foot to establish home
for Scandinavian emigrants in Boston.
This is not to take the form of charity,
but to encourage the Scandinavians to es-
tablish themselves in Shis country. 1t is
estimated that $50, 900 will be needed foI
building, and nucleus of $1,000 OF
$4,000 is already available.
A remarkable drinking contest took
place in a saloon in Carson, New, re-
Gently; remarkable because the liquid
was water. The wager was $50, and the
man who won it drank eleven large
glasses of cold water, and was none the
worse for it, The other fellow drank nine
glasses and became i'll.
Something new in contests over wills
is reported from a Jersey court. The tes
tator bequeathed all his property to the
prospective children of his son, who is 6
youth of 10, and who, finding himself
without means, has undertaken to breoh
the will on the ground that his father was
not entirely of sound mind.
A Frenchman recently rode into Water
vile, Me-, driving a big Newfoundland
dog hitched to a. small two wheeled cart
which the animal had hauled inside O
three days from town in Canada, dis
tance of about $50 miles. The owner sale
the dog could outstrip in days journey
the best Of horses.
An Iowa man has just shipped 10000
young pine trees from Black River Falls
Wis, to Iowa to be transplanted HI,
has made a shipment nearly every yea,
. for the last thirty years, and says his eX
perience is that these trees are the mos
thrifty and hardy and make the best wint
brakes of any tree that has yet been triet
On the Iowa prairies.
Some of the Buffalo sign painters hav
hard times with "&c." and ''etc." On
sign reads, Groceries, provisions and &c.
Another has it "&tc." Still other forms ar
''and etc, ;" "&soforth, " ''et&c, - and 'ant
ct cetera" One man, who believes il
giving his customers their choice froms
large stock, hangs out the sign, 'Dr.
Goods, Et Cetera, Etc, &C."
The Philadelphia Crematory associa
tion has decided ON plans for its crema
tory building, which will be 81 by SO fee
, in size 81 feet in height, apd consists of
, crematory chamber and over that chapel
!. The latter will be 80 feet square and a
feet high. Brick, Ohio sandstone an
iron will be the principal materials used